stapler99
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Whats unusual about an undergrad attending a prof/grad student party?
by tsunami_rid3r inso i've been hanging around the professional crowd for a while, its much more funner than hanging out with people my own age.
like tonight, i was the only undergrad at my prof's party.
it was cool too because i got to hang with my profs at a more chill setting.
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1914 - from their books
by KW13 ini know the 1914 was originally something else, and they decided on 1914 after.
which year did they decide this and how can i prove without using websites to my mum??
books of their own?
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July 15th Watchtower - article on Russian court cases
by stapler99 inapologies if a thread has been posted on this already but i didn't see anything.
in view of the other articles in the magazine, about apostasy and shunning, what they have to say about the treatment of jehovah's witnesses in russia takes on a new light and shows the contradiction in their positions.
some choice quotes:.
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JW's - an international organization?
by Listener ini always thought the jws were an internation organization but it appears they don't consider themselves to be that.. this was in a letter found on google was written by wt loyd vice president of the wtbs australia, it was a submission to be treated as a charity.. http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:qahsgte4vysj:www.cdi.gov.au/submissions/357-watchtowerbibleandtractsocietyofaustralia.doc+watchtower+bible+and+tract+society+of+australia+financial+report&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=adgeeshqa1b_fsujltkvmgfjcx1_ba5vup35fhuri35cmc4ndprw6ny-rofdcp8lbyzwio5ou--0bwurdjivxt_5m8fnmy9vdr0qeue-e2pxt2k6jpvzcy2ja4d7njakxcaqlujyxjkf&sig=ahietbrtufqf8i7kxtys0qlvyejniqq5ww.
issues regarding definitions used in australia compared to other countries.
the society is not an international organization having branches in other countries.. however, jehovahs witnesses are worldwide, and a different not-for-profit organization.
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Development of memory away from cultic thinking
by stapler99 inwhen i left jehovah's witnesses, my opinion of them was not going to change overnight.
my sentiment towards them was integrated into my personality, all the way down to how i reacted to specific words, like "christian.
" when i saw strangers who were jehovah's witnesses, i felt close to them, even though we had nothing in common.
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Swastikas on the tree: how the Nazis stole Christmas
by BurnTheShips inhttp://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/swastikas-on-the-tree-how-the-nazis-stole-christmas-1848467.html.
presents wrapped in paper covered with nazi symbols nestling beneath a tree adorned with swastikas and grenade-shaped baubles: welcome to christmas under adolf hitler's third reich.. .
as a new exhibition in the western german city of cologne shows, the nazis tried to skew the christmas story to do away with the jewish baby jesus and impose their racist ideology and propaganda on the popular festival.. "celebrating the birth of a jewish baby was unthinkable for the nazis," juergen mueller, the chief researcher behind the exhibition, told afp.. "but christmas was too popular to be banned.
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Suppose you're a JW and you want your children to stay in...
by stapler99 inwhat would the best strategy be?
i ask this because thinking about my upbringing, i don't believe what the watchtower seems to suggest, that the more spiritual you are, the more bible study you do, the more field service you do, the completer your meeting attendence is, the less worldly association your children have, etc., then the more likely it will be that they will "stay loyal to jehovah" !hurls!
i don't have that many cases to consider, but i have seen youngsters getting baptized whose famailies don't seem to do that much field ministry and miss a lot of meetings.
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End of the world? Do they wanna tell me then??
by awol inha ha.
well, i have family in the org and i have a best mate in too!
now, either they are embarrassed or have run out of tracts or something.... but no one has rang me to tell me to pull up my socks and get back as i am about to die!!
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Post number 6666
by greendawn inas if three sixes are not bad enough we have here four of them.
i take this opportunity to damn the beast 666 of revelation, strangely enough moses lifted up the copper serpent that symbolised the christ as the future saviour.
yet the serpent is the symbol of the devil so how comes christ came to be associated with it?
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WTS statistics question
by parakeet indoes anyone know how the wts tallies the number of jws worldwide?
i ask because so many on this board and elsewhere, including me, have gradually faded away from the jws, have become "inactive" in wt terms.
are inactive jws included when the wts publishes the total number of jws worldwide?